A new CU-Boulder study of a space-age, low-gravity training machine led by Associate Professor Rodger Kram, shows the machine significantly reduced impacts on muscles and joints of study subjects.A University of Colorado at Boulder study of a space-age, low-gravity training machine used by several 2008 Olympic runners showed it reduced impacts on muscles and joints by nearly half when subjects ran at the equivalent of 50 percent of their body weight.The new study has implications for both competitive runners rehabilitating from injuries and for ordinary people returning from knee and hip surgeries, according to Associate Professor Rodger Kram of CU-Boulderâ€™s integrative physiology department. Known as the â€śG-Trainer,â€ť the machine consists of a treadmill surrounded by an inflatable plastic chamber that encases the lower body of the runner, said Kram. Air pumped into the chamber increases the pressure and effectively reduces the weight of runners, who are sealed in the machine at t...
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Sign up! You dealt with a topic that made me think icky with professional distance. I think some readers will forget about Ali's breasts as they progress through your article. Nice job, Pam, and this parent thinks people are way too curious when they start wondering about the breast size of 14 year old girls. In an era of Photoshop and other ways to enhance pictures (as well as various bras available out there) I don't see what the fuss is about. Your personal perspective adds common sense and, yes, much needed perspective to this one. Yup you are right it's call P-U-B-E-R-T-Y as a 'suddenly bloomed' teen ( wayyyyyy back when) I can relate! Great article Pam. As someone who is well endowed, I've heard my share. If Ali has enhanced her breasts it is to fit someone's ideal of what theperfect celebrity body should consist of. People are going to stare and talk no matter what. One must wonder... Excellent as usual. I think you handled this well. Your name: Submit your own con...
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D.C. A hot, sticky opening day of Lollapalooza is in the books, with a record crowd of 75,000 in attendance. 11 a.m.: The line of ticket holders snaking down Columbus Drive is hundreds long. Within a couple hours it will be considerably longer, and concertgoers report an hour-long wait to get inside the gates. This is already shaping up as by far the most populated Lollapalooza yet. Many of the 75,000 ticketholders are arriving early to secure a prime spot for Radioheadâ€™s headlining performance nine hours from now at the south end of Hutchinson Field. 11:50 a.m.: Itâ€™s not even noon and Lollapalooza 2008 has already gone off with a Bang Camaro. The Boston-based metal group, which sports four guitarists and no less than 10 singers, looks and sounds like a gospel choir in service to el diablo. A couple hundred early attendees are there to witness the synchronized headbanging. Some punch the air and clap along, while others stand about bemused, unsure of what theyâ...
Originally from: http://leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com/turn_it_up/2008/08/lollapalooza-da.html